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Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

Controllable compression of bright soliton matter waves

Ju-Kui Xue

Published Oct 11, 2005• 43 citations
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Abstract

An analytical study on the dynamics of bright solitons of Bose–Einstein condensates (BEC) with a time-varying atomic scattering length in a time-varying expulsive parabolic potential is presented. Exact solutions of the one-dimensional Gross–Pitaevskii equation are obtained. The results show that the bright soliton (including the higher-order bright soliton) can be compressed into a desired width and amplitude in a controllable manner by changing the scattering length and external potential. Furthermore, it is shown numerically that the present method is also efficient for the two-dimensional BEC's compression.

DOI
10.1088/0953-4075/38/21/006

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The exact solitonic solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which describes the dynamics of bright soliton in Bose–Einstein condensates with the time-dependent interaction in an expulsive parabolic and complex potential, are obtained by Darboux transformation. The results show that one can compress a bright soliton into an assumed peak of matter wave density by adusting the experimental parameter of the ratio of axial oscillation to radial oscillation or feeding parameter. Especially, when parameters satisfy the relation λ = 2γ, the soliton is stable with time evolution without changing its shape and amplitude.